Toshiba Satellite Pro A60

I'm going to get straight to the point: what went wrong? I now have a lovely Macbook that works, but my previous laptop - the A60 - was absolutely the most awful laptop in the world. Apart from being extremely bulky it was also noisy. I thought that the more room inside the cooler it would be. Obviously not. I could sit in a car going down the motorway and i would still hear it bellowing out above everything else. The noise was created by a fan that is supposed to cool a powerful processor - note that the machine was still far too hot to have on my lap. The power, however, never really came. You opened Word 2003 and it would launch about a minute later - pretty ...

Now, I'm no expert on computers, I don't claim to be and I have little interest in beccoming an expert, so this review may well lack the "technical" terms and experience, but... I have had this computer for 2 years, so my opinion has to be worth something right!? Let me start from the begining, I purchased my Toshiba A60 laptop from PC world in January '05. I fell in love with it the first time I saw it. All blue and pretty and quite bulky and retro looking. Adding to that there was a lot of good qualities to it. The numbers seemed pretty high and decent for the ghz, ram, hd etc. As you can see I really am not a computer whizz! Adding to that the ...